Pictures of the day: 12 October 2012

Artist Gina Czarnecki adjusts her sculpture "Palaces", made of resin and children's milk teeth, at the The Wasted Works exhibition at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. The exhibition, part of Manchester Science Week, explores the taboos in society around waste body parts, and how milk teeth, liposuction fat and hip joints left over after operations could be used for stem cell regeneration.Picture: REUTERS/Phil Noble